to choose / to select

to choose / to pick / to select / to elect

to be elected; to be selected

to select on the basis of a vote or consensus

to optimize / preferred

to lose an election

presidential election

to be included among those selected for

to select very carefully

general election

available / optional

to take part in an election / to run for office

to select (one or more options from a list) / to check (a box)

carefully chosen / handpicked / best of the bunch / choice (product) / concentration (mining) / to concentrate / to winnow

primary election

to filter

to buy votes (in an election)

candidate (attributive)

to select and edit / to compile

to elect / to choose

to run for election / to be selected; to be elected

to decant / to strain off

to pick / to choose / to select

to be chosen; to be selected

reelection / to reelect

to call for entries and select the best / to solicit (entries, submissions, applications etc) / to select (the best candidate) / contest / competition

Selected Works of Mao Zedong (abbr. for 毛澤東選集｜毛泽东选集)

(in elections for village committees in the PRC since the 1990s) unrestricted nomination, a type of election where 1. everyone in the community is eligible to nominate somebody 2. voting is done by writing the name of one's nominee on the ballot, and 3. one's nominee can be anyone in the community (Nominees who receive the highest number of votes may be thereby elected or, more often, presented as the candidates in a further round of voting.) / (in other contexts) selection of the best contender in a process open to all comers / (in the entertainment industry) open audition

direct election

to choose by oneself / free to choose / optional / self-service

to select / (computing) to click on (one of several options) / to navigate to (a webpage)

to choose freely; to pick whichever one fancies

choice of person / candidate

to be a candidate in an election or other selection process / to run for office / to turn out to vote

to select / to sort out

to vote by ballot

to be elected

to select very carefully

alternative (plan, arrangement, strategy etc)

to win an election

universal suffrage

Wang Xuan (1937-2006), Chinese printing industry innovator

to fail to be chosen (or elected) / to lose an election

by-election

(literary) a little while

democratically elected

compilation / selected works

newly elected

flotation process

to withdraw from an election / to drop out of an elective course

excerpt / selection (from a book) / to select / to choose an extract

first choice / premium / to come first in the imperial examinations

to select; to pick

preselection / short-listing / primary election

to assist in a candidate's election campaign (Tw)